bustle
verb/ˈbʌsl/
/ˈbʌsl/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they bustle | /ˈbʌsl/ /ˈbʌsl/ |
| he / she / it bustles | /ˈbʌslz/ /ˈbʌslz/ |
| past simple bustled | /ˈbʌsld/ /ˈbʌsld/ |
| past participle bustled | /ˈbʌsld/ /ˈbʌsld/ |
| -ing form bustling | /ˈbʌslɪŋ/ /ˈbʌslɪŋ/ |
- to move around in a busy way or to hurry somebody in a particular direction
- + adv./prep. He was bustling around in the kitchen.
- bustle somebody + adv./prep. The nurse bustled us out of the room.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBustle is used with these nouns as the subject:- servant
Word Originverb late Middle English: perhaps a variant of obsolete buskle, frequentative of busk ‘prepare’, from Old Norse.Want to learn more?
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